there is no question with the bombings themselves and the events in watertown friday, there was a lot of firepower deployed, but beyond that, which is information that is obvious to anyone paying attention, i would not characterize the investigation or what weapons may or may not have been recovered. on a separate matter of the efforts that the president spoke about last week, which is the need to continue to take commonsense measures and make them law to reduce gun violence in america, the president remains committed to that, and it was a sad day, as the president said, in washington, when a minority of united states senators voted against not just the majority of the american people, not even a large majority, 90% of the american people, who understand that expanded background checks, you know, making better the system that already exists to prevent people who by law should not have access to weapons, was the right thing to do and remains the right thing to do. >> this is a different issue. does the president support legislation allowing states to allow internet retailers to sales t